ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,331, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Battery system" was invented by Naoto Yamashita (Kariya-city, Japan), Masahiko Ito (Kariya-city, Japan), Masakazu Kouda (Kariya-city, Japan) and Hisanaga Onishi (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery system comprises a plurality of battery modules, each of the battery modules includes an assembled battery configured to include a plurality of battery cells connected in series, a monitoring unit configured to monitor the assembled battery, and an external member configured to be electrically connected to the monitoring unit, and the monitoring unit o...